لوْ لمْ يكُنْ واديكُمُ بارداً

لَقُلْتُ منْ دَمْعي أتى الوادي

If your valley were not so cold

I would have said my tears made the valley flow

أو لمْ يَكُ الشّادي بهِ أعْجَماً

طارَحْتُ شجْوي طيْرَهُ الشّادي

Or if the river had not been so strange

I would have set my longing free, a bird over the river